lazyboy97o
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It was still dirt a week ago.
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News New Crêperie restaurant coming to Epcot's France Pavilion as part of Ratatouille expansion
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This is from June 12th, and I was under the impression that the concrete walls going up next to the gondola support was the new restaurant, with the entrance to Rat in the background. Have I misinterpreted the picture?
lazyboy97o
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The walls are for the stroller parking area. The building next to it is the restrooms. If you are standing the on the other side of that wall looking at the attraction entrance, the back of the theater will be on your left and the crêperie will be on your right.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I am assuming this is the Creperie...
EPCOTCenterLover
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I thought those were new restrooms.
lazyboy97o
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Those are the restrooms. If you look at the slightly older aerials you can see that it is split in two halves with lots of plumbing inside. The crêperie is going where the restrooms were located on the old water management plans.
trainplane3
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I guess you could call it the Craperie then.
Restroom in blue, creperie in yellow...
Epcot_Imagineer
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What might the blue cylinder be?
Fountain in the original concept art.
build_it
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That would make a lot of sense as the height in that section is more restricted by the Skyliner. Restrooms don't need a lot of height. The creperie would benefit from the extra height. I'm hopeful this also means they are redesigning the exterior to take advantage of the change in location.
lazyboy97o
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Yellow is the overflow queue. Crêperie is to the west.
lazyboy97o
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The crêperie didn’t change location. People just assumed it was in the current restroom location since that was an open space on the published water management plans and publicity art.
Thanks for the info.
Then... blue is restrooms, red is creperie, and yellow is overflow queue....
Skipper Dan
Active Member
So here's a random question I haven't heard mentioned (maybe I missed it)... am I too assume that we'll not be getting a "Bistro Chez Remy"? Honestly, that'd really be a shame; but I expect nothing less from Bob & Co.
ToTBellHop
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It was deemed unnecessary in a pavilion with two sit-downs. Of course, they later reversed course and decided to plop the creperie down...perhaps the Bistrot's aesthetic would have distracted from the ostensibly authentic dining elsewhere in the pavilion?
Disney doesn't run most of the restaurants in Epcot. They'd have to kick out their prized chef who's running the two restaurants already there, or, compete with him. They gave him the creperie, too, to run. It'd be up to him in a deal with Disney to convert, say, Chefs de France, to a Remy's. After all, at one time, Remy had a M&G in there. If he was ever in need to drum up business, say, during a recession, it might behoove him to do so.
Goofyernmost
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Ya those are called La Crapier Restrooms in keeping within the Creperie theme. Which, by the way, I give it a month before that is what the whole place will be called. Are Imagineers that naive or are they really just trying to make it memorable. Maybe they decided to use that name while in a time out in day care.
lazyboy97o
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So the architecture is allegedly Norman but the name is La Crêperie de Paris?
LittleBuford
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Where was it announced that the architecture is supposed to be Norman?